The town of Rushville, Indiana, possesses one of the more exceptional courthouses out in the country that I’ve seen in awhile.
Built in 1896, it still sports its central clocktower, which sometimes is removed, as was done in Kirksville, Missouri, after structural problems appeared.
I really love the Damascus arch for the main entrance. The courthouse was designed by the firm of Rush, Endacott and Rush of Grand Rapids, Michigan. I wonder if their last names provided a positive bias for the citizens of Rushville and Rush County!
It’s a refined, and extremely late, example of the Romanesque Revival. The firm specialized in courthouses with similar massing throughout the Midwest.
Five hundred miles away, southwest of Sedalia, Missouri, I spotted this old grain elevator on the side of the highway.
The Katy Trail runs by here, and there’s even a historic marker that commemorates grain elevators such as this one.
I wasn’t able to learn much about it, but it certainly picturesque.
